Big Bend, California Weather
Big Bend, California — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Big Bend, Butte County.
Full aviation weather for Big Bend is published on the Oroville Municipal Airport (KOVE) page, 27 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 3 airfields within reach of Big Bend have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Big Bend: Chico Regional Airport (KCIC) 36 km · Haigh Field (KO37) 59 km
Conditions reported at KOVE describe the airfield itself. Weather 27 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Bend specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Bend.
About Big Bend, California
Big Bend lies at the broad, sun-drenched shoulders of a landscape that remembers a different time, where rolling hills, dusted with the ochre of dry grasses, descend into the valley floor. It lies 20.1 miles east of Chico, CA (from Chico, CA: bearing 96°T), and is situated 9.6 miles east-south-east of Paradise. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a peculiar sweetness, a mingling of warm earth and the faint, resinous perfume of distant pines. Oak trees, their limbs gnarled and reaching like ancient supplicants, punctuate the open spaces, their shadows stretching long and cool across fields that hint at a robust agricultural past. The very character of Big Bend is etched into this terrain – a place of expansive skies and a quiet, enduring beauty that feels both wild and welcoming. The story of Big Bend is one of resilience, deeply tied to the fertile lands that have sustained it. For generations, agriculture has been the lifeblood, with orchards and vineyards once dotting the landscape, leaving a legacy of rich soil and a tradition of hard work. Though some of those fields have since given way to more modern ventures, the spirit of cultivation endures, evident in the small farms and roadside stands that still offer the bounty of the region. The Feather River, a cool, silver ribbon, flows nearby, a constant reminder of the waterway that has shaped both the natural beauty and the historical pathways of this place, a quiet witness to the ebb and flow of life in Big Bend.
Live animated radar for Big Bend and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Big Bend, Butte County, California |
| Coordinates | 39.698218°N, 121.460802°W |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 95728, 95476, 96011 |
| Area Code | 408, 669, 530 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Bend, California Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Bend, California, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Big Bend includes coordinates 39.698218°N, 121.460802°W, situated in Butte County. ZIP code 95728, 95476, 96011. Telephone area code: 408, 669, 530. Timezone: Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
